Category: What Are You Doing?!?

My daughter is going to be a senior in highschool, but for a long time now, she keeps asking “Why aren’t you a teacher?” Seems she and her friends liked the way I taught them how to roll sushi! I’ve taught martial arts for years at a time, and I guess people liked the way Read more about Professor Cushing[…]

I spent way too long chasing the title and the paycheck, only to turn around when I thought I had ‘made it’ to realize that I was miserable. Job environment aside, I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do, and as time passed, I was moving further and further away from hands on development. Took Read more about When you like where you work[…]

So how did you find your way to where you are? Are you an accidental DBA who now loves it? Are you the IT Director who dabbles a little, but you started as a help desk person? Or are you a BI Developer now and were writing copy for a magazine 5 years ago? I’m Read more about What was your path to SQLFamily?[…]

I was listening to my daughter’s marching band director speak to the kids the other night to inspire them not only for the last few competitions of the season, but to challenge them in general. He had a quote written on the board: Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, Read more about Teddy Roosevelt is the man[…]

Trying to post regularly, and one thing I’d like to try to track is my progress. So what have I been doing? Reading Now: Kimball Group – The Data Warehouse Toolkit Planning Now: looking at PowerBI and trying to connect to a test database at work. I want to try to put together a pilot Read more about What are you DOING?!?[…]